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This is literally something that is taught in highschool, not some brave, contrarian belief.
The classification of cannabis changed to incarnate more black people. It's a historical fact and it's sad that many people don't know that.
Just gonna drop this quote form a Nixon aide here:
"You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did"
The war on drugs was a war on blacks and anti-Vietnam activists.
incarnate
Either you mean incarcerate, or else it is one hell of a gateway
Yeah, sorry. I'm tired and English isn't my mother tongue.
I didn't mean anything by it, and assumed it was autocorrect. I was just amused by the visual of it in my head.
I smoked pot and now I have a new isekai life with superpowers and a band of roaming catgirl assassins who enforce my will upon an otherwise cruel, dark, and corrupt world in an alternate dimension.
This could happen to you.
I believe originally, it was used to incarcerate Latin Americans, hence the naming of "Marihuana" and later, "Marijuana" to make it sound more Spanish.
It goes along with how they categorize cannabis as "drug" while alcohol for some reason gets it's own special category.
DARE programs referring to "drugs, alcohol, and tobacco," and middle school me thinking "I'm pretty sure those are all drugs..."
I don't think those are "gateways" though. I think the real gateway is when you try something that you're taught is vilified and told it will make you stupid and ruin your life, but then all it really does is chill you out. The gateway is realizing you've been lied to and you wonder what else was a lie so you try other things. Alcohol if anything has the opposite problem.
100%. There's also the fact that when weed is illegal, the only way to get it is through someone who likely sells other illegal substances so it's not hard to start messing around with other things after smoking for a bit.
Weed is only a gateway drug when its illegal
Calling alcohol and nicotine the first substances that most people abuse when caffeine exists is the biggest win in propaganda history.
No one has ever said “man I love coffee, I should try ecstasy next!” Lol
No but people have said if you take ten wake me ups (caffeine pills) it feels like cocaine
So this is what coke is like
These caffeine pills dont do that for me anymore
Maybe I should try coke
Source: my social circle in high school
You don't know my life
I'm sure more than a few people have said "coffee ain't doin' it for me anymore; I should try cocaine or meth," though.
Caffeine: am I a joke to you?
Been smoking weed for over 50 years and I never found that gate!
That's because you were too stoned to look for it. You set us up man.
I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for the sumbitch! I usually just climbed over the fence.
I believe that sugar and caffeine are the real gateway drugs, they are the 1st chemical compounds many people are addicted to.
Gateway to what? Harder cookies? A double shot of espresso? They're definitely drugs, but I think to call them a gateway isn't so accurate.
The gateway is having to deal with shitty people that used to be in those crowds.
Its becoming less of an issue as more people use it responsibly like social drinkers and you dont have to deal with a complete waste of space to society to get it or be around others who partake.
Reefer madness is bullshit, but its also not 100% harmless either. Chronic use of THC still almost certainly causes GABA disregulation for instance.
You have a stupid majority who act like weed is just as bad as heroine and meth and THE gateway drug, but the potheads who are just horrible people spouting about how its completely harmless aren't helping the cause either.
Also people with mental illness in their family history should probably not use it. But that is true for all drugs, including alcohol.
The war on drugs has always been bullshit. I wonder how many bosses have said "drug free workplace" or principals saying "drug free campus" while holding a cup of coffee.
Alcohol and nicotine are the first step in the path of despair. But cannabis is the gateway to a good time. Change my mind.
Eh alcohol can be enjoyed in moderation. Personally I massively prefer it to weed
Person 1: You know what? You're right. They should all be deregulated.
Person 2: You know what? You're right. They should all be illegal.
You forgot caffeine in the meme
Refined sugar.
Caffine. The kids drug of choice
As someone that's smoked weed for 20 years, I think it's too potent now and consider the plant to be something that got abused by humans the same way humans abuse everything they touch.
Don't be a stoner.
Use it as medicine.
Stoners are junkies.
After 20 years I'm finally realizing this and using it more as only medicine.
I remember a quote I read a looong time ago... "If your eyes get red you are abusing it." From that point on when your eyes are deeply red, it's not medicine, it's an escape.
Also... The side effects of capitalism are a gateway drug because capitalism gives people the want to escape.
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